The Amazon is approaching a dangerous threshold. Long understood as the world’s largest tropical forest and a critical regulator of the global climate, its future is increasingly shaped by the convergence of organized crime and environmental crime. This nexus is accelerating deforestation and degradation, worsening fire risk, undermining governance, and weakening the economic foundations needed to sustain […]
I believe for rainforests in Indonesia it is palmoil that causes most deforestation, in the Amazon cattle and their feed (mostly soy). Regardless, two big drivers of deforestation that need to be haltes.
mostly being cleared away for cattle which is then shipped of to asia proper.
Afaik the main driver is palm oil…
I believe for rainforests in Indonesia it is palmoil that causes most deforestation, in the Amazon cattle and their feed (mostly soy). Regardless, two big drivers of deforestation that need to be haltes.